US FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use gene-editing tool CRISPR ~health Article 1493 words 49 votes
Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg ~science biology Article 845 words 19 votes
Swedish appeals court ups surgeon's sentence for 'harm' during experimental windpipe transplants ~health medicine Article 542 words 7 votes
Cambridge-Caltech team of scientists claim to have created synthetic human embryos from stem cells at conference; work not yet published ~science biology medicine Article 806 words, published Jun 14 2023 29 votes
Swedish court has given disgraced Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini a suspended sentence for causing bodily harm during an experimental stem-cell windpipe transplant ~health medicine Article 58 words 3 votes
Scientists grew stem cell 'mini brains'. Then, the brains sort-of developed eyes ~science biology Article 685 words 12 votes
The birth-tissue profiteers - How well-meaning donations end up fueling an unproven, virtually unregulated $2 billion stem cell industry ~science biology medicine Article 6868 words, published May 7 2019 8 votes